David S Peter Pumpkins Davis

plato-was-a-dick.ghost.ioHow Geeks Ate the World - Plato Was a Dick

8 Sept 2025

I'm writing a book about the rise of reactionary movements in Western geek culture, particularly since the beginning of the internet until now, and how we got stuck in this shitty alt-white meme-fash tech-dystopia within a mere 25 years: Article thread! 1/🧵

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yaoi gagarin

@mel.bzky.team

LIKE TO CHARGE REPOST TO CAST

Matt Novak@paleofuture.bsky.social

I’m not sure I understand what he’s going for here.

Please inform the Speaker of the House that James Hamel, who swore into office under the fake name of "JD Vance," cannot legally serve as Vice President

Matt Novak@paleofuture.bsky.social

“Therefore, because she used a fake name to be sworn in, I assume she must IMMEDIATELY resign from Congress. Please inform the Speaker of the House of Representatives, James Michael Johnson, that the Dumocrat Party has just conceded her seat.”

I'm stuck here!

LiberalDespot@druidic.org

Meanwhile, near Taiwan, Super Typhoon Champi approaches...

One of the worst sins that James Talarico committed was one time he said something like "God is non-binary," which was offensive because it suggested God is something other than strictly male. But the people offended by this are the same who will tell you transgender can't be a thing because 1/2

the definition of a "male" is someone who carries an XY chromosome and produces small gametes. Has anyone ver asked how this applies to God?

al-monitor.comTrump mocks popularity of the name Mohammad, common among MuslimsBy Steve Holland and Kanishka SinghDALTON, Georgia, Oct 16 (Reuters) - US President Donald Trump made a joke about the popularity of the name Mohammad in the Muslim world as he mocked Iran's presidency during a campaign speech on Friday. "You know, if you're in doubt about somebody's name from the Middle East, just say 'Mohammad,'" Trump told a crowd in Dalton, Georgia. "You have about a 65% chance. 'Hello, Mohammad.' I've done it for years now. I've never been wrong."

Man whose middle name is "John" mocks the unoriginality of another man's middle name

Al-Monitor (Unofficial)@almonitor-rss.bsky.social

Trump mocks popularity of the name Mohammad, common among Muslims - https://www.al-monitor.com/originals/2026/10/trump-mocks-popularity-name-mohammad-common-among-muslims

Before AI existed I used to kind of like the fact that I overuse em-dashes in my writing--I always thought it was an endearing quirk of mine.

Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans)@iwriteok.bsky.social

This is all disgusting. I've had people accuse me of using AI when I do shit like use an em-dash. I struggle to avoid yelling but HUNDREDS OF ARTICLES AND AT LEAST TWO BOOKS I WROTE have been scraped by OpenAI. I'm part of why your chatbots write the way they do. They're copying me.

variety.com‘Breaking Bad’ Star RJ Mitte’s Cause of Death Confirmed as Suicide'Breaking Bad' star RJ Mitte died Monday by suicide, his rep has confirmed.

OH NO ugh this SUCKS

Haha, got your ass

pmamtraveller.bsky.social@pmamtraveller.bsky.social

A 19th Century Japanese Depiction of an American

Man who drone strikes fisherman and bombs elementary schools stands with regime that dismembers journalists with bone saws against “blatant disregard for innocent civilian life.”

Jordan H.@jordanehoser.bsky.social

Rubio confirms the American death.

Elon Musk? The Hitler salute guy?

e.w. niedermeyer@niedermeyer.online

just to emphasize what's happening here: BMW (a company that used slave labor under the Nazis) refused to provide an official vehicle to the ultra right-wing AfD party, which is now asking Elon Musk to provide a Tesla instead Tesla literally becoming the Nazi car brand

plato-was-a-dick.ghost.ioI Sure Am Sick of All These Dudes' Opinions About the Cornell Jane Doe(I've got some news about a book I'm writing! Click here to read about it!) I’ve been making a concerted effort to lower the temperature of this S Peter Davis Internet News Magazine for a while now b...

Regretfully I have weighed in on Michael Tracey, Richard Hanania, Matt Walsh, and all the other men who would like to patiently explain to you women's inner thoughts about sexual assault

fucking fuck man what the holy fuck

I want it

Discontinued FoOoOods! 👻🎃@discontinuedfoods.bsky.social

Starbucks Zombie Frappuccino (2017-2017): A special Halloween season release, this blended beverage consisted of a tart apple & caramel creme base (giving it a sickly green color), topped with thick, pink whipped cream "brains" and a red mocha "blood" drizzle

I looked up and ultimately just purchased this book entirely because I saw this post

emma dawn@emmadawn.com

Jon Ronson's THE CASTLE is so fucking good. That is all. @jonronson.bsky.social

Smooth Dunk@smoothdunk2.bsky.social

gross face. horrible to draw

Everything is computer

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump: "If you add Venezuela we'll have 58% of the fuel in the world. In order to save a glass of fuel like this *dumps a glass of water* it's ridiculous. They have computers all over the place, and the other thing is it didn't work well."

This is actually fine because the constitution says that congress shall make no law establishing an official religion but it doesn't say anything about the defense secretary doing it unilaterally

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Hegseth: "Today, at my direction, I'm establishing the Office of Religious Affairs. It will report straight to the top -- a direct line to the secretary ... as Psalm 33:12 extolls us, blessed is the nation in which God is the Lord"

These people misrepresent their true motivations all the time. For all they complain about their tax dollars going to to the poor, when they see a propaganda ad demonizing the poor, they're upset because it's not misogynist or racist. It's not even the poor they really hate, it's just minorities.

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Brandon, Call Garette "Ratliff"

Sitcom People@sitcompeople.bsky.social

"We should be more thoughtful and honest about the way we discuss the specific harms of data centers." "I am going to kill you."

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@ridiculouscage.bsky.social

Bernie Sanders is going to start tweeting about Roko's Basilisk. 2026 is wild

Faine Greenwood@faineg.com

I regret to inform you all that Bernie Sanders is in fact taking meetings with noted rationalist wacko Eliezer Yudkowsky over what AI regulations should look like. x.com/SenSanders/s...

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Cage

"why would I deceive you?"

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hollywoodreporter.comThe Major Social Media Platforms Are All Rejecting Paid Ads for Alex Gibney’s ‘Musk’ (Exclusive)YouTube, TikTok and Meta have all turned down the trailer for the Oct. 9 doc, citing “political” content. X won't even take Bleecker Street's calls. The distributor is appealing.

Streisand the fuck out of this thing

Mark Lemley@marklemley.bsky.social

Facebook really doesn't want you to see the new documentary exposing Elon Musk Neither do TikTok or Google or the eX social media site. Since they won't accept paid advertising, let's do some free advertising. Go see Musk in theaters October 9 www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/dig...

“Trump TV,” the new state media replacement for MSNBC and Politico, looks like it’s going great

Woimsday

caroline cash@cashbrowns.bsky.social

Nancy 2/22/26… 🪱WOIMS🪱

Grabbing you by the collar with both hands, white knuckled, neck veins bulging, and screaming "HOW TALL ARE WOMEN??"

Boo!-per Lund@cooperlund.online

Wandering around the apartment muttering “how tall are women, really?” like a video game NPC

I'm fairly confident that this is being misreported, because Robert Eggers isn't that stupid? Most likely someone misinterpreted something, maybe even a joke.

DiscussingFilm@discussingfilm.net

Robert Eggers is set to direct a new film adaptation of ‘ROMEO AND JULIET’. The film will feature the actors speaking in Olde English. (Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...)

semafor.comKalshi to allow trading on borrowed fundsOnly some of the bets will allow margin trading, showing where the prediction-markets platform thinks its future lies.

what are we doing here

Semafor@semafor.com

Kalshi will now let users juice their bets with borrowed money. www.semafor.com/article/09/2...

22 Sept

Who do you think David Ellison will hire as editor in chief of CNN? My guess is Joe Rogan.

By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)@doctorow.pluralistic.net

Well, *fuck*. California AG Rob Bonta just surrendered to the Trump-aligned billionaires who want to take over and destroy Warners, merging it with the chudded-out husk of Paramount, leaving these two corrupt assholes to control Warners, Paramount *and* Tiktok: www.reuters.com/legal/litiga...

22 Sept

I look at Twitter occasionally (it's necessary unfortunately for what I write about) but it's hard to describe for people who don't go there just how bad it is. The density of not just racism but misogyny and all other flavors of hate. "Cut down on the right wing slop" my fat ass. It's Gab now.

Rachel Gilmore@rachelgilmore.bsky.social

For the record, this was the justification she shared with me on Twitter. It doesn’t really make sense to me given how she worded things in the clip, but FYI:

22 Sept

Sad to think they probably brought the Paul brothers to the White House only because the Tate brothers couldn't get bail

20 Sept

Trump is finally going to put an end to ISIS terrorists pouring across the border from Virginia into DC

Bill Grueskin@bgrueskin.bsky.social

Trump’s newest brainstorm is to turn his arch, in the middle of Washington DC, into a deer stand so “Snipers” can hunt down the bad guys. A 9-year-old boy is running the country these days

18 Sept

Two decades ago when everyone was making fun of how bad the Twilight movies were, I never could have imagined that those would become two of my favorite actors

futurism.comAnthropic Boasts It Would Be Profitable if You Ignore How Much It Costs to Develop AIAnthropic says that its billion-dollar AI business would be profitable, if only you ignore the figure on the bottom line.

16 Sept

Are you people still trying to run the economy on classic math after all the cool kids have already moved on to Math 2?

By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)@doctorow.pluralistic.net

Which is to say, these companies are claiming that they are *so cool* that their profitability can only be measured using a novel, secret form of mathematics: futurism.com/future-socie...

15 Sept

This is exactly the kind of message I do not want to see while everyone is having a discourse about rogue AI going self aware and taking over the internet

P(aul) Frazee@pfrazee.com

We're aware of the outage and working on it. Seeing a bunch of other services down on downdetector

15 Sept

Boosting for coinage of the word "murderbinkie"

Catherynne M. Valente@catvalente.bsky.social

I’d like to point out that Trump’s refusal to regulate AI on any level sets up the next admin (if we get one) to have millions of addicts FURIOUS with Democrats for taking their binkie away/passing even minimal laws about the use of said murderbinkie. At which point the GOP will be swept back in.

14 Sept

Cunk is the hero we need. She will save us.

Pop Base@popbase.tv

First look at Diane Morgan as Philomena Cunk in Netflix’s ‘Cunk On Cinema.’ Featuring Benedict Cumberbatch, Daniel Pemberton, Michael Bay, Steven E. de Souza and more.

12 Sept

Critical Support to comrade *checks notes* uhh

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11 Sept

Sitcom People@sitcompeople.bsky.social

11 Sept

oh, ok

Rob Beschizza@beschizza.com

My most successful post of all time, many millions of page views, was "Elon Musk but with Elizabeth Holmes' eyes," this convergence was destiny.

10 Sept

I will swallow your soul

cal.newsOpinion | Democrats have lost Silicon Valley. Here's what it will take to win it backIf Democrats want to become the party of the future again, they need to stop treating the people building the future like political enemies.

Counterpoint: Silicon Valley is openly saying they're thinking about killing everyone

CalMatters@calmatters.org

Opinion | Democrats have lost Silicon Valley. Here's what it will take to win it back If Democrats want to become the party of the future again, they need to stop treating the people building the future like political enemies.

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Oh shit

Gore Vidal Sassoon@jimmyjazz1968.bsky.social

John Fetterman waiting backstage at his announcement he's becoming a Republican

I KNEW IT

e.w. niedermeyer@niedermeyer.online

I was in suspense at the intermission, but (spoilers) it does turn out that this Musk guy is a bit of a bad apple

It happened again

Kashmir Hill@kashhill.bsky.social

Did not wake up realizing that “did OpenAI cheat on the homework” would be the most exciting social media drama of the day cims.nyu.edu/~tristanb/st...

locusmag.comWorldcon 2028 Site Selection: Brisbane - LocusLAcon V has announced that Aussiecon 5 and the Brisbane in 2028 bid won the right to host the 2028 Worldcon. The 86th World Science Fiction Convention will be held July 27-31, 2028 at the Brisbane Con...

8 Sept

Worldcon coming to my town 2028 motherbitches lets go!!

Paul Riddell@kyloboomhauer.bsky.social

Welp, now I have motivation to get finances and writing in order within the next two years, so Sarah and I can make the trip. I swore I was going to see a shingleback lizard in the wild before I died, and I plan to follow through. locusmag.com/2026/09/worl...